Test 7 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

was the wife gutted when the berries made her ill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: berries · What happens: gut, make · To what, where: wife

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	aux:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 berries	det
7	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 made	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		the wife					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	make	past	the berries	wife				ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

nah, she was actually well chuffed about the berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 chuffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chuffed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chuffed	aux:pass
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 chuffed	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 chuffed	advmod
7	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 berries	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 berries	det
10	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		she				about the berries; actually, well property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she was gutted and cried for ages after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gutted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gutted	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	aux:pass
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	5 gutted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut after	past · passive		she					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	cry speech: express	past					for ages		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for age=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she got sad and ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ill	cc
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she					sad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she felt dead happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she					dead, happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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